Reeva Steenkamp's uncle, Mike, makes a tearful address to the media after
South African model Reeva Steenkamp's funeral as her boyfriend Oscar
Pistorius faces a bail hearing charged with her murder.

A hearse took Steenkamp's body to the Victoria Park Crematorium in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth for a private funeral attended by more than 100 relatives and friends.

While the funeral was being held, Pistorius was at a bail hearing in a Pretoria court about 560 miles to the north, where a prosecutor said he fired four shots last week at a cowering Steenkamp through a bathroom door at his luxury home.

Pistorius's lawyer said there was no murder case.

After the hour-long ceremony, relatives stood outside and friends paid their condolences, hugging Steenkamp's parents, in the serene wooded area dotted with tombstones.

The killing of law school graduate Steenkamp, 30, has once again highlighted South Africa's dismal record of violence against women - on average, a woman is raped every four minutes, and one is killed every eight hours by her partner or relative.

The country is still reeling from the murder this month of 17-year-old Anene Booysen, who was gang-raped, mutilated and left for dead on a building site.

Just days before she was killed, Steenkamp sent tweets offering her support for Booysen and the victims of sexual violence in the country.

Reeva's uncle, Mike Steenkamp, told reporters through tears after the funeral his niece wanted to be an activist for ending abuse against women.

"Unfortunately it has swung right around, but I think that the Lord knows that her statement is more powerful now."

Reeva's brother Adam told reporters: "There's a space missing inside all the people that she knew that can't be filled again. We are going to keep all the positive things that we remember and know about my sister.